Gates Of Eden-Bob Dylan

[00:04.04]Of war and peace the truth just twists [00:08.07]Its curfew gull just glides [00:14.20]Upon four-legged forest clouds [00:18.01]The cowboy angel rides [00:23.94]With his candle lit into the sun [00:27.94]Though its glow is waxed in black [00:34.02]All except when 'neath the trees of Eden [00:39.68] [00:44.27]The lamppost stands with folded arms [00:48.22]Its iron claws attached [00:54.03]To curbs 'neath holes where babies wail [00:58.12]Though it shadows metal badge [01:02.98]All and all can only fall [01:05.96]With a crashing but meaningless blow [01:12.08]No sound ever comes from the Gates of Eden [01:17.46] [01:22.18]The savage soldier sticks his head in sand [01:27.14]And then complains [01:31.82]Unto the shoeless hunter who's gone deaf [01:36.65]But still remains [01:40.25]Upon the beach where hound dogs bay [01:43.66]At ships with tattooed sails [01:49.43]Heading for the Gates of Eden [01:54.15] [01:59.55]With a time-rusted compass blade [02:03.32]Aladdin and his lamp [02:09.59]Sits with Utopian hermit monks [02:13.41]Side saddle on the Golden Calf [02:17.12]And on their promises of paradise [02:20.51]You will not hear a laugh [02:26.75]All except inside the Gates of Eden [02:31.94] [02:36.57]Relationships of ownership [02:40.00]They whisper in the wings [02:45.93]To those condemned to act accordingly [02:49.26]And wait for succeeding kings [02:53.71]And I try to harmonize with songs [02:56.96]The lonesome sparrow sings [03:02.57]There are no kings inside the Gates of Eden [03:08.07] [03:13.58]The motorcycle black madonna [03:17.26]Two-wheeled gypsy queen [03:22.63]And her silver-studded phantom cause [03:26.42]The gray flannel dwarf to scream [03:30.26]As he weeps to wicked birds of prey [03:34.23]Who pick up on his bread crumb sins [03:39.41]And there are no sins inside the Gates of Eden [03:44.50] [03:49.03]The kingdoms of Experience [03:53.34]In the precious wind they rot [03:59.12]While paupers change possessions [04:02.14]Each one wishing for what the other has got [04:06.90]And the princess and the prince [04:09.28]Discuss what's real and what is not [04:15.73]It doesn't matter inside the Gates of Eden [04:21.06] [04:26.11]The foreign sun, it squints upon [04:29.34]A bed that is never mine [04:35.50]As friends and other strangers [04:38.59]From their fates try to resign [04:43.15]Leaving men wholly, totally free [04:46.48]To do anything they wish to do but die [04:52.80]And there are no trials inside the Gates of Eden [04:58.14] [05:03.39]At dawn my lover comes to me [05:06.96]And tells me of her dreams [05:12.61]With no attempts to shovel the glimpse [05:16.21]Into the ditch of what each one means [05:20.27]At times I think there are no words [05:23.60]But these to tell what's true [05:29.30]And there are no truths outside the Gates of Eden [05:34.70] [05:37.38]